phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract. In acoustics, a formant is usually...

goal of a speech synthesis system, and formant synthesis systems have advantages over concatenative systems. Formant-synthesized speech can be reliably intelligible...

spectrogram: The [i] and [u] have similar low first formants, whereas [ɑ] has a higher formant. The second formant, F2, corresponds to vowel frontness. Back vowels...

sound in the voices of opera singers. It is also commonly called "singer's formant", "ring", "ping", "core", and other terms. Squillo enables an essentially...

"attack, decay, sustain, release") Changes both of spectral envelope (formant-glide) and fundamental frequency (micro-intonation) Prefix, or onset of...

in a classic experiment, Alvin Liberman (1957) showed that the onset formant transitions of /d/ differ depending on the following vowel (see Figure...

frequency and its formants. Each vowel in the vowel diagram has a unique first and second formant, or F1 and F2. The frequency of the first formant refers to...

The FS1R also contained an additional wave form called the Formant wave form. Formants can be used to model resonating body instrument sounds like the...

However, he also states that at least in his study, [ə] has the same formant values as /œ/, suggesting a phonemic merger of /œ/ with some instances...

2007. Retrieved 18 June 2007. C'est une région officiellement bilingue formant au centre du pays une enclave dans la province du Brabant flamand (Vlaams...

FS1R audio demonstration A sequence showing the combined FM synthesis and formant parameters in a single patch, along with the FS1R's onboard delay and reverb...

other hand, the sh sound /ʃ/ in ash is a colored noise because it has a formant structure. In music and acoustics, the term white noise may be used for...

and of the syllable nucleus. Their third formants are generally non-predictable based on the first two formants. Another important feature is their complex...

and /ɛ/ are distinctive). Actual phonological studies done by studying formant data show that current speakers of Standard Korean do not differentiate...

open-source, cross-platform, compact, software speech synthesizer. It uses a formant synthesis method, providing many languages in a relatively small file size...

are characterized by different formant structures, that are visible in a spectrogram of the recorded sound wave. Formants are the amplitude peaks in the...

Typical male voices range from 2.2 metres (7 ft) to 4 metres (13 ft). Formant Hearing (sense) Voice call Cox, R. V.; Neto, S. F. De Campos; Lamblin,...

speaker discriminating power of sounds undergoing historical change: A formant-based study", the Proceedings of ICPhS Saarbrücken, pp. 1813–1816 Ladefoged...

is as follows: /i, u, æ/ are close to cardinal [i, u, a]. The F1 and F2 formant frequencies overlap for /œ/ and /ɯ/. Their acoustic quality is more or...

possible, researchers disagree on which combinations constitute diphthongs. Formant frequency analysis distinguish /aĭ/, /aĕ/, /aŏ/, /aŭ/, /oŭ/ as diphthongs...

[such as Hebrew and Arabic] which show a more definite displacement of the formant frequencies for h, suggesting it has a [glottal] constriction associated...

Theremin's original design included audio frequency series/parallel LC formant filters as well as a 3-winding variable-saturation transformer to control...

Tuttivox (1953), Harald Bode UPIC (1977), Iannis Xenakis and CEMAMu Warbo Formant organ (1937), Harald Bode Important centers of research and composition...

dialect) сулугун (sulugun) adding Georgian nominative formant i, where sulu means Whey, and formant -gun means "made of". However, this version does not...

R-colored vowel, a vowel that is modified in a way that lowers the third formant, such as the [ɝ] sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of...

general description of roars as consisting of both a low pitch and low formant. They have used the roars of lions and red deer as quintessential examples...

rising (mVr) formant mar. Similarly, according to this theory, "Palmyra" derives from the Hurrian word pal ("to know") using the same mVr formant (mar). The...

method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the singer's formant; which has been shown to match particularly well to the most sensitive...

Viollet-le-Duc, translating into French the words of Julius Caesar: La Gaule unie Formant une seule nation Animée d'un même esprit, Peut défier l'Univers. (Gaul...

This base syllable consists of the first two formants, complete with formant transitions, and the third formant without a transition. Normally, there would...